Nick Mullins

Nick Mullins was a former coal miner, environmental activist, and writer from Virginia.

Biography
Nick Mullins was born in Georges Fork, Dickenson County, Virginia, and he came from five generations of coal miners. He worked as a miner in Virginia, Kentucky, and West Virginia, and his family lost everything when their ancestral home burned down in 2010. Mullins grew sick of his union-busting company, its politics, and the fighting between his coworkers and the company, and he decided to become an environmental activist and writer. He moved to Berea, Kentucky, and he began lecturing on Appalachian issues at colleges.